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• • Profesor Helmut Gneuss (1927–2023)

  • Professor Helmut Gneuss – an outstanding scholar, medievalist, and historical linguist specializing in manuscript studies, palaeography, language, culture, and writing of medieval England – passed away on the 26th of February 2023. In his professional and scholarly capacity, he was affiliated with many academic centres, starting with the Freie Universität in Berlin, through the universities in Heidelberg, Cambridge, UNC in Chapel Hill, and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In the latter, he held the Chair for English Historical Linguistics and Medieval English Literature from 1965 to 1997. (more…)
  • 1 April 2023

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• • Summer schools 2023

  • Registration for Summer Schools 2023 is now open for the following programmes: Digital Palaeography Summer School at the University of Göttingen: 24 July - 4 August. Deadline for applications and registration: 31 March. For further details, see Digital Palaeography. The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School offers several courses from 3  to 7 July.  For further details and registration form, see Digital Humanities. The annual Collection Security Summer School organised by the Consortium of European Research Libraries will take place this year in Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid from 6 to 8 Spetember. For further details, see CERL. Diagnosis in Heritage Science: 5. Focus on organic materials at the University of Piza: the workshop will take place on 10-14 July. Deadline for applications...
  • 9 March 2023

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• • A new version of the website and database of medieval manuscripts by the Manuscripta.pl project

  •   The Manuscripta.pl project has launched a new version of the website and database of medieval manuscripts. The website provides access to a continually updated database of medieval manuscripts in Poland, which fall into four categories: extant manuscripts, fragments, Polonica, and lost manuscripts. The Vademecum for research into manuscripts in Poland offers a range of tools to facilitate research, such as a bibliography of publications on medieval manuscripts from Polish collections, a map of medieval manuscript repositories, and a Polish-English glossary of manuscript terms.
  • 7 July 2022

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• • Summer Schools 2022 (updated)

  • Registration for Summer Schools 2022 has begun. Below, you will find a list of several programmes: 1. The Medici Archive Project is pleased to announce the dates for the upcoming 2022 Summer Seminars in Paleography and Archival Studies which will take place in Florence on 20-25 June 2022 and 27 June – 2 July 2022. Deadline: 1 June 2022. For further details, see: https://medievalartresearch.com/2022/03/14/seminar-summer-seminars-in-paleography-and-archival-studies-deadline-1st-june-2022/ 2. The Institute for Digital Humanitities at the University of Göttingen, with generous support from the Volkswagen Foundation, is pleased to announce its inaugural international Digital Palaeography Summer School on 1-12 August 2022. Applications are due by 30 April 2022. For further details, see: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/657388.html 3. The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School 2022 offers a range of...
  • 30 March 2022

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• • Scholarship and fellowship programmes (updated)

  • 1. Doctoral and young scholars fellowships  For doctoral students, the Herzog August Bibliothek, together with private foundations, offers various funding opportunities for scientific work with the library's holdings. Annual application deadlines: April 1 and October 1. Applicants may apply for a fellowship of between 2 and 10 months. Further details are available via: https://www.hab.de/en/doctoral-and-young-scholars-fellowships/ 2. Call for Applications for two MGH Fellowships The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH) are a non-university research institution dedicated to the study of medieval history with a special focus on the edition of medieval Latin sources. In 2022, the charitable MGH friends association „Pro arte edendi – Freunde der MGH e.V.“ finances two MGH fellowships for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers working in the field of source...
  • 30 March 2022

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• • Special programmes and aid for Ukrainian cultural institutions, scholars and students

  • As a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the country's libraries, archives, museums and monuments are endangered too. Several assistance programmes have been set up in Poland to support the authorities and staff in their efforts to protect the collections. The Institute of History at the Jagiellonian University was the first to initiate fundraising events and organize aid for the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv: https://historia.uj.edu.pl/aktualnosci/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_3rfgiHChJ2me/11050764/150121156 A Committee on the Aid for the Museums of Ukraine was established simultaneously: https://www.facebook.com/MuzealnicyDlaUkrainy/ and https://twitter.com/MuzeaUkrainie. The aim of the Committee is to help secure, inventory, and digitize the collections, provide materials to protect and hide the collections, and keep records of the looting and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural...
  • 10 March 2022

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• • Online symposium: ‘Fragmented Illuminations’

  • [caption id="attachment_1848" align="alignleft" width="150"] Border ornaments attributed to Domenico Morone, from a Franciscan choirbook, Verona, ca. 1500. Museum nos 4918:1 to 9 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[/caption] The Victoria & Albert Museum in London will be organising an online symposium in early July as a follow-up to the display Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the Victoria and Albert Museum (extended until 5 June 2022). It will be held over one afternoon to allow for as large an audience as possible to join and participate, from different time zones. Abstracts (max. 300 words), a paper title, and a short biography (max. 150 words) should be sent to Dr Catherine Yvard, at:  c.yvard@vam.ac.uk The deadline for submissions is...
  • 31 January 2022

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• • Lecture online: ‘The King’s Rollodex’

  • [caption id="attachment_1822" align="alignleft" width="150"] The King's Rollodex - Bard Graduate Center[/caption] Bard Graduate Center extends an invitation to an online lecture in the series "The Global Middle Ages Seminar". The lecture entitled  ‘The King’s Rollodex’ will be given by Sonja Drimmer, a professor of art history at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, via Zoom on the 9 February, at 12.15 pm (ET). Further details on the lecture and registration are available via: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/1310/09-feb-2022-the-kings    
  • 31 January 2022

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• • The Spiral-Locked Letters of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

  • [caption id="attachment_1646" align="alignleft" width="150"] A reconstruction of how Mary, Queen of Scots' last letter may have been secured shut using the spiral lock mechanism. Unlocking History Research Group Archive/MIT Libraries[/caption]   Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and King's College London have recently cracked the code of the spiral-locked letter of Mary, Queen of Scots. The results of their research are discussed in a paper published in the Electronic British Library Journal (2021): https://www.bl.uk/eblj/2021articles/article11.html. Here's a note and a short video demonstrating the technique of the spiral-locked letters: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/14/1062790520/mary-queen-of-scots-letterlocking-spiral-lock  
  • 2 January 2022

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• • November Podcast: Les Enluminures – “Time, Daylight, and a November Calendar”

  • Les Enluminures - a gallery specializing in medieval and renaissance manuscripts has released a podcast on the illuminated November page from a calendar from The Hours of Le Goux de La Berchère. The podcast explores the phenomenon of time in the Middle Ages and the way in which days and hours were understood in the medieval period. https://www.lesenluminures.com/video/103-mini-podcast-episode-32-time-daylight-and-a/  
  • 19 November 2021

• • A New Issue of an Open Access Journal Classics@18

  • https://classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/volume/classics18-ancient-manuscripts-and-virtual-research-environments/ A new issue of an Open Access journal Classics@18 focuses on 'the practice of presenting harvested data in ancient manuscripts within virtual research environments.'
  • 13 October 2021